On Sunday, December 7, 2025 7:22:54 PM Central European Standard Time Albert 
Astals Cid wrote:
> We introduced it 15 years ago because Nokia wanted to use poppler in systems
> with very weak floating point units where using float vs double made things
> much faster. I am hoping those systems don't exist anymore.

I guess it is in the same vein as Qt having qreal which back in the days 
defaulted to single precision on all arm systems and double precision on most 
other systems where since quite a while, having qreal be anything other than 
double likely requires some handholding.

/Sune
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